Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Wife
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Hanako
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.
Lady
黒澤明監督の戦後最初の監督作品。京大・滝川事件とゾルゲ・スパイ事件をモチーフに、ファシズムの吹き荒れる時代にあって自らの信念に基づいて強く生きる女性の姿を謳い上げたドラマ。国民的アイドル原節子が芯の強いヒロインを好演。昭和8年。京都帝国大学の教授・八木原の教え子たちにとって教授の一人娘、幸枝は憧れの的。野毛、糸川の二人の学生も幸枝に想いを寄せていた。秀才型で日和見的な糸川に対して実直で行動派の野毛。軍国主義が強まる中、野毛が左翼運動へと身を投じる一方、糸川はひたすらに法曹の道を目指していた。やがて、幸枝は信念を持って行動する野毛に魅力を感じ始めるのだったが……。
Shizumi, Dancing girl (uncredited)
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
Geisha
Sanae Tazaki
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
Tazuko
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
